When I read Jeff Jackson’s 2013 novel Mira Corpora, it blew my mind. It felt so of its moment, in terms of its literary heft: it was an experimental novel that was still friendly, beautifully...
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Features, Kids ArticleNov 8th 2018One of my very favorite series growing up was Sydney Taylor’s ALL OF A KIND FAMILY, about five Jewish sisters growing up at the turn of the 20th century in New York City’s Lower East Side. The stories are...
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FeaturesNov 6th 2018If you are not familiar with the work of children’s and young adult author Cynthia Leitich Smith, I hope you will be soon. Cyn is a prolific and thoughtful writer of everything from picture books to supernatural to...
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A missing laptop, a petulant critic, a sojourn in communal living--Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love is a bracingly intelligent examination of grief, autonomy, aging, desire, information overload, and the condition of being a thinking and feeling inhabitant of an often unthinkable, numbing world. Anna Moschovakis's debut novel bristles with honesty, humor, and the hungers that propel us to revise and again revise our lives.
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This full throttle debut gets my vote for best story collection of the year! Filled with surreal, dystopic and satirical explorations of race, class, and consumerism in America, the first story will make your jaw drop--and it only gets weirder from there. Nana is a big, promising talent and a fitting heir to the likes of Vonnegut. Terrific!
Poet Anna Moschovakis' debut novel, ELEANOR OR THE REJECTION OF THE PROGRESS OF LOVE, is an enthralling story (or two stories) of what it's like to be alive now. I can't think of a book I've read that captures the modern feeling of diconnect, overstimulation, information overload and the desire to authentically feel, like this novel. There's a stolen laptop, an endeavor to retrieve the laptop, a digression into communal life as well as the story of the person attempting to write this story and her relationship with a grumbling critic. Deeply moving, authentic, rich with feeling and bursting with intelligence, ELEANOR will astound you.
Though best known for his films--masterworks like Gates of Heaven and The Fog of War--Errol Morris is a hell of a writer too. The Ashtray, his third book, is a philosophical inquiry into the work of Thomas Kuhn, the famed pop academic with whom Morris takes serious issue (some of this may be personal: Kuhn once threw an ashtray at grad student Morris' head, thus sparking the title). Best about this book? It feels just as kaleidoscopic as one of Morris' documentaries, blending different modes (photographs, interviews, histories, recollections) to make its argument: in short, its process is just as important as its point. It's a worthy addition to Morris' astonishing body of work.
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An allegorical wonder from 1950's Uruguay. A woman attempts suicide on the eve of her 30th birthday, but instead of dying she becomes hyper-aware of her surroundings and wanders the woods and village outside her apartment. The sight of her form throws the village into chaos, as they are forced to confront the rocky religious morality and misogyny their lives are based on. Definitely an underrated feminist classic -- good for fans of the satirical cult fave HERLAND, or the comically dark prose of Djuna Barnes.
In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America’s “first white president.”
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people –– the beauty within themselves.
-- Langston Hughes